[Federal Register: May 1, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 83)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0363; FRL-8307-8]
Board of Scientific Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting--May
2007
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-
463, the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and
Development (ORD), gives notice of one meeting of the Board of
Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee.
DATES: The meeting will be held on Thursday, May 24, 2007 from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. and Friday, May 25, 2007 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. All
times noted are eastern time. The meeting may adjourn early if all
business is finished. Requests for the draft agenda or for making oral
presentations at the meeting will be accepted up to 1 business day
before the meeting.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Newport Harbor Hotel and
Marina, 49 America's Cup Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island 02840. Submit
your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0363, by one
of the following methods:
http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for
submitting comments.
E-mail: Send comments by electronic mail (e-mail) to:
ORD.Docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0363.
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Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0363.
Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific
Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting--May 2007 Docket, Mailcode:
28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0363.
Hand Delivery or Courier. Deliver comments to: EPA Docket
Center (EPA/DC), Room B102, EPA West Building, 1301 Constitution
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-
0363.
Note: This is not a mailing address. Such deliveries are only
accepted during the docket's normal hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2007-0363. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at
http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided,
unless the comment includes information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to
be CBI or otherwise protected through http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail.
The http://www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system,
which means EPA will not know your identity or contact information
unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an e-
mail comment directly to EPA without going through http://www.regulations.gov,
your e-mail address will be automatically captured and included as part
of the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available
on the Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends
that you include your name and other contact information in the body of
your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read
your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for
clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic
files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of
encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses. For additional
information about EPA's public docket visit the EPA Docket Center
homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the
http://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically
in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Board of Scientific
Counselors, Executive Committee--May 2007 Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West,
Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The Public
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public
Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the ORD
Docket is (202) 566-1752.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Designated Federal Officer via
mail at: Lorelei Kowalski, Mail Code 8104-R, Office of Science Policy,
Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency,
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; via phone/voice
mail at: (202) 564-3408; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or via e-mail at:
kowalski.lorelei@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
General Information
Any member of the public interested in receiving a draft BOSC
agenda or making a presentation at the meeting may contact Lorelei
Kowalski, the Designated Federal Officer, via any of the contact
methods listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section above. In
general, each individual making an oral presentation will be limited to
a total of three minutes.
Proposed agenda items for the meeting include, but are not limited
to: ORD response to recent STAR/GRO report; review/approval of the
Human Health Mid-Cycle Draft Report; review/approval of the Safe
Pesticides/Safe Products Program Review Draft Report; updates on Mid-
Cycle Review Subcommittees for Ecology and Drinking Water; updates on
Program Review Subcommittees for Technology for Sustainability, Human
Health Risk Assessment, and Homeland Security; updates on Standing
Subcommittees for Computational Toxicology, for the National Center for
Environmental Research (NCER) and for the National Exposure Research
Lab (NERL); an ORD briefing on the National Coastal Condition Report
III; and future issues and plans. There will also be a site visit to
ORD's Narragansett Lab. The meeting is open to the public.
Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For
information on access or services for individuals with disabilities,
please contact Lorelei Kowalski at (202) 564-3408 or
kowalski.lorelei@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a disability,
please contact Lorelei Kowalski, preferably at least 10 days prior to
the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your
request.
Dated: April 24, 2007.
Mary Ellen Radzikowski,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
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